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Every 2 years I take Xfce (Xubuntu, Mint Xfce) for a test drive. It seems light and fast, I want to like it. Then every 2 years, I rediscover that the resize bo

Every 2 years I take Xfce (Xubuntu, Mint Xfce) for a test drive. It seems light and fast, I want to like it. Then every 2 years, I rediscover that the resize border on each window is 1px wide, which is completely unusable. When I google for a solution, the answer seems to be use Alt-Left-Mouse. I don't understand how that is a solution. I don't want to use 2 hands to resize a window.

abdullahkhalids 4y ago
Used Xfce for a decade. I have never had trouble using the mouse to resize windows. I use 1080p screen, maybe you use a higher resolution and 1px is too small on that. If you right click the title bar of any window, to open a menu, from which you can select resize.
kelnos 4y ago
Yeah, that's frustrating sometimes, and I don't even have a super hi-res screen. But I just live with it. Honestly I don't resize windows that often. I either use the window's natural size, or maximize. In the 18 years I've used Xfce it hasn't been a big issue for me.
MichaelCollins 4y ago
> When I google for a solution, the answer seems to be use Alt-Left-Mouse. I don't understand how that is a solution. I don't want to use 2 hands to resize a window. For what it's worth, it works very well one-handed on laptops, this is how I've used it for years and I greatly prefer it. The click target, that is the area you have to aim for with the mouse cursor, is much bigger than even the most absurdly thick window borders, so I find it much easier to use.
forgotmypw17 4y ago
I use Chicago95, which seems to fix this issue, among many others
nine_k 4y ago
Wat. I'm writing this from under Xfce. Just targeted my mouse pointer at a window border, moved it around. No, the resize-sensitive width is deifinitely wider than 1 px. Have you tried changing the window title / border theme in Settings / Window Manager? There are a few themes with resize corners only provided on top and bottom, and with left/right borders 1px thick; you might have switched to that and had the frustration. But there are definitely a number of themes with comfortably thick border. (My preferred one is Smoothwall.)
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HattinGokbori87 4y ago
It is a well-known forever issue with XFCE- https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/-/issues/176 https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/-/issues/176 Even though it has been 7 years since the initial report and the issue is still very much active, the assigned dev says it's a low priority to him. If you know how some FOSS project still work, there's very little hope for a change anytime soon.

abdullahkhalids 4y ago

Used Xfce for a decade. I have never had trouble using the mouse to resize windows. I use 1080p screen, maybe you use a higher resolution and 1px is too small on that. If you right click the title bar of any window, to open a menu, from which you can select resize.

kelnos 4y ago

Yeah, that's frustrating sometimes, and I don't even have a super hi-res screen. But I just live with it. Honestly I don't resize windows that often. I either use the window's natural size, or maximize. In the 18 years I've used Xfce it hasn't been a big issue for me.

MichaelCollins 4y ago

> When I google for a solution, the answer seems to be use Alt-Left-Mouse. I don't understand how that is a solution. I don't want to use 2 hands to resize a window. For what it's worth, it works very well one-handed on laptops, this is how I've used it for years and I greatly prefer it. The click target, that is the area you have to aim for with the mouse cursor, is much bigger than even the most absurdly thick window borders, so I find it much easier to use.

forgotmypw17 4y ago

I use Chicago95, which seems to fix this issue, among many others

nine_k 4y ago

Wat. I'm writing this from under Xfce. Just targeted my mouse pointer at a window border, moved it around. No, the resize-sensitive width is deifinitely wider than 1 px. Have you tried changing the window title / border theme in Settings / Window Manager? There are a few themes with resize corners only provided on top and bottom, and with left/right borders 1px thick; you might have switched to that and had the frustration. But there are definitely a number of themes with comfortably thick border. (My preferred one is Smoothwall.)

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HattinGokbori87 4y ago

It is a well-known forever issue with XFCE- https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/-/issues/176 https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfwm4/-/issues/176 Even though it has been 7 years since the initial report and the issue is still very much active, the assigned dev says it's a low priority to him. If you know how some FOSS project still work, there's very little hope for a change anytime soon.